The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (March 1918)

ARTICLE
1. Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey on the
one hand and Russia on the other declare that the
condition of war between them has ceased. They have
decided to live in peace and accord in the future.

ARTICLE
2. The contracting parties will refrain from all
agitation or propaganda against the governments or all
state and military institutions of the other side. . . .

ARTICLE 3. The territories lying to the west of the
line determined by the contracting powers and which
formerly belonged to Russia will no longer be under her
sovereignty. ... Russia gives up all interference in the
internal affairs of the said countries. Germany and
Austria-Hungary intend to determine the future fate of
the said territories with the consent of their
inhabitants.

ARTICLE 4. Germany is ready, as soon as general peace
is established and Russian demobilisation will have
completely taken place, to vacate the territories lying
east of the line mentioned in . . . article 3. . . . Russia
will do all in her power to have the provinces of eastern
Anatolia promptly evacuated and returned to Turkey. The
territories of Ardakhan, Kars and Batum will also be
cleared without delay of Russian forces. . . .

ARTICLE 5. Russia will, without delay, proceed to
demobilise her army, including those army units newly
formed by her present government. Moreover, Russia will
either bring her warships into Russian ports and keep
them there until general peace is concluded, or will
disarm them at once. . . .

ARTICLE 6. Russia undertakes to conclude peace at once
with the Ukrainian people's republic and to recognise the
treaty of peace between the state and the powers of the
Quadruple Alliance. The territory of the Ukraine must be,
at once, cleared of Russian troops and the Russian Red
Guard. Russia ceases all agitation or propaganda against
the government or the public institutions of the
Ukrainian people's republic. Estonia and Lithuania must
also be immediately cleared of Russian troops and the
Russian Red Guard. . . . Finland and the Aland Islands will
also be, without delay, cleared of Russian troops and the
Russian Red Guard and Finnish ports of the Russian fleet
and of Russian naval forces. . . . Russia ceases all
agitation or propaganda against the government or public
institutions of Finland. . . .

ARTICLE 7. ... the contracting parties bind themselves
to respect the political and economic independence and
the territorial inviolability of Persia and Afghanistan.

ARTICLE 8. The prisoners of war of both parties will
be allowed to return home. . . .

ARTICLE 9. The contracting parties mutually renounce
all indemnifications for their war expenses, that is, for
government expenses for conducting the war, . . . including
all requisitions made in the enemy's country.

[ARTICLES 10-13 deal with technical matters]

ARTICLE 14. The present peace treaty must be ratified.
Exchange of ratification documents must take place in
Berlin as soon as possible. The Russian Government binds
itself to execute the exchange of ratification documents . . . in the course of two weeks.
. . .

[The full text of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is available at
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/blmenu.asp.]